"The Injury"

Although my injuries are always minor, I take pictures when I deem them "bad". Last week yielded the most recent addition- the slice to the foot. This happened when I was rushing to Ward Prayer. Our meeting spot is in the parking lot, and as I was running along the fence bordering the lot, it got caught on the fence and made a clean slice from the 3rd toe down.

This is "the injury" from last year. Result of a bad tumble whilst disco skating.

This year's "injury"

My friend Lonnie took this picture on his phone shortly after the incident.

After I came back and cleaned it up, this is what it looked like.

Ta-da! (please disregard the horrible pedicure.)

Another Bad Burger King Commercial

When I saw this commercial for the first time, I immediately thought of how it stereotypes both men and women.

The few females in this clip are:

A: a haggard housewife

B: a female EMT enjoying her BK breakfast

C: a seductive younger woman

Basically, women are either housewives, working women who eat breakfast like the men, or carefree and attractive.

Additionally, all of the men in this commercial are oblivious to their surroundings; so intent on getting breakfast and checking out the young lady.

I only saw this once on Hulu, but the next time I saw this commercial begin, it didn't continue the same way. It had both men AND women going to get breakfast. Unfortunately, I couldn't find this video anywhere online besides its alloted 32 seconds on Hulu.

I feel like Burger King continually misses the mark in their advertisements.

I'm not the only one who noticed this...

http://devolutionmedia.blogspot.com/2010/09/burger-king-commercial.html

http://www.marketlikeachick.com/burger-king-loses-marketing-machismo-focuses-on-women/

May I just say...

General conference was so good!

I mean, it always is. But I really enjoyed watching it this time. I was attentive, took good notes, and enjoyed all of the talks.

However, I was definitely expecting a huge announcement from President Monson. Nearly every speaker gave some sort of advice to follow the prophet, have faith, use our agency to choose the right, etc.

These are some of the (funny/ random) things we came up with that he might advise us:

1. no ear piercings at all

2. no internet (yikes!)

3. no facebook (another yikes..haha)

4. everyone get up and move to Missouri

5. tithing now 15%

Well, needless to say, he didn't say any of those things. But he did give great counsel to express gratitude.

My testimony was strengthened over these past few days. I know that our church leaders are inspired and give us talks that apply to our lives. I am so grateful for this true gospel. I am also grateful for the gift of the holy ghost, the gift of agency, and the blessings of love and faith.

I hope anyone else that watched felt some of the same things as I did.

This is what happens when you have a stomache ache at 1:07 am.

I think this blog is going down the drain. I really don't have a clear focus anymore. I'm not even inconsistent!

Last night, as I sat in bed at 1:07 am eating crackers, I just kept thinking about this blog. I don't even know what prompted it. Maybe because yesterday I was hooked on my computer? I'm still not sure.

But I think its just going to continue being a random compilation of crap for a while. So, bear with me, and please don't give up on my blogging "abilities".

And in the meantime, watch this video.

Never say No to America

I think is interesting that even though this is an Egyptian commercial, it still uses a song sung in English. This cultural imperialism is more present than ever in music and commercials. I have never seen a commercial wit ha song in Arabic or any dialect even close to that. It makes me wonder if the roles will ever be switched. Will we ever be the nation that is being imprinted upon? Because of the expanding creativity and mediums to produce things, I think we will continue this act of spreading our culture to any end of the earth.

Say what?!

Lands' End has something cool???

I love all these items in this new division of Land's End.

COOOL!!

So, in case you were wondering what my favorite things were...

This baby

And these

This too

What the heck is this?

Another what the heck

Well, as you can see, there are some winners, and some apparent losers in this batch. But I've gotta hand it to Lands' End...None of these items are monogrammed or in shades of fluorescent orange. A first.

Not your Typical Vegetable

USA TODAY REPORT

When I came across this news report, I wasn't quite sure what to think. Actually, this was the procession of my thoughts:

1. Ew. You know that feeling you get when you are looking at something while eating a different item? For example; If I'm looking at a gallon of Orange Juice and I'm drinking a cup of milk, I get a sick feeling because I was expecting to taste orange juice. I almost want to spit it out. Or when water comes in a can on airplanes. Isn't that the most bizarre feeling? Your mind tricks you into expecting what you're thinking about.
2. Cool! They package apple slices in little bags, so why not carrots! And one of the packages even looks feminine! Don't see that too often.
3. Hmmm...I wonder how other people will take this new campaign. Even though the article says its not an anti-junk food campaign, you can't help but get the feeling they're trying to one-up Doritos.
4. Wow. $25 million?! That's a lot of money. And the slogans aren't extremely creative. I mean, "scarrots?" First thing that makes me think of is scabs. I'm not saying I can do better, but if they're going to spend $25 million, they might as well get something cooler than that.

Would you buy carrots in a chip bag? Will it be a success? What do you think?